Word: mccray
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scene. The office of Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana, in 1923. Secretary of State Ed. Jackson, soon to be elected governor, enters and says to Governor McCray: "I know your condition and we might just as well get down to brass tacks. We are very anxious to get this appointment [Prosecuting Attorney of Marion County]. You go into the room of your private secretary, and when you return there will be $10,000 in the drawer of your desk. No one will know about it. You can call Remy over and tell him you changed your mind...
...Governor McCray replies: "Ed, I am amazed that you should make that kind of an offer to me. You evidently don't know me. It begins to look like I've lost my fortune that I've striven for for 35 years. My office is threatened, it looks as if they are threatening my liberty, but I'm not going to lose my self respect...
Trial. The above conversation was part of the testimony of Mr. McCray in the criminal trial of Governor Ed Jackson in Indianapolis last week. The prosecution by the State was in the hands of able William H. Remy (TIME, Feb. 20), whom Mr. McCray had appointed in 1923. It looked like a clear-cut bribe conspiracy, out of which it would be difficult for Governor Jackson to squirm. But he did get out of it, easily, quietly. His lawyers pointed out that, under Indiana's statute of limitations, no man can be indicted for a bribery crime more than...
...like so many other famed writers, in the once-great but latterly self-belittled state of Indiana. Dr. Osborn evinced his faith in Indiana when, in 1926, he asked President Coolidge to let him occupy a cell in Atlanta Penitentiary as substitute for Indiana's Governor, Warren T. McCray (see CORRUPTION), who had been jailed for mail fraud. Said generous Dr. Osborn: "I have nothing to do, I have no dependents and I am used to more hardships than a prison entails...
Prosecutor Remy, aged 35, now has Indiana's crows in the palm of his hand. Jailbird Stephenson, vexed because friends have neglected to bend his bars, has turned over to Prosecutor Remy a large black box containing many Indiana secrets. One-time Governor McCray, now out of the penitentiary, wishing to re-establish a reputation as a gentleman-farmer and honest man, has announced his willingness to tell everything. Should Governor Jackson be hustled off to jail, people are wondering what kind of a governor Prosecutor Remy would make. Some also wonder whether he could end the Senatorial career...